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Headword:
*pi=los
Adler number: pi,1601
Translated headword: [something made of] felt
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a covering.
Greek Original:*pi=los: to\ ke/ntouklon.
Notes:
cf.
pi 1599,
pi 1602.
The glossing noun here,
ke/ntouklon, is (according to Trapp) a transliteration of Latin
centunclum "saddle-cloth." It can also refer to any clothing or covering made from coarse wool or felt. See Nick Nicholas' note on
An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds v. 511.
The entry is also in ps.-Herodian, the
Ambrosian Lexicon (according to Adler), and ps.-
Zonaras.
Reference:
Nick Nicholas and George Baloglou, edd., An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
Keywords: clothing; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; military affairs; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 March 2010@01:18:22.
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